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_broddstafur_, scipio, _hastulus_, hastile.

2. _Be staff and burdon_; a phrase respecting either invest.i.ture or resignation.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

BURDOUN, _s._ ”The drone of a bag-pipe, in which sense it is commonly used in S.”

_Ruddiman._

Fr. _bourdon_, id.

BURDOWYS, _s._ Men who fought with clubs.

_Barbour._

_Burdare_, (Matt. Paris), is to fight with clubs, after the manner of clowns, qui, he says, Anglis _Burdons_.

BUREDELY, _adv._ Forcibly, vigorously.

V. ~Burdly~.

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

BUREIL, BURAL, _adj._ Vulgar, rustic.

_Wallace._

Chaucer _borel_, id.; L. B. _burell-us_, a species of coa.r.s.e cloth; Teut. _buer_, a peasant.

BURG _of ice_, a whale-fisher's phrase for a field of ice floating in the sea, S., most probably from its resemblance of a _castle_.

BURGENS, _s. pl._ Burgesses.

_Wyntown._

Lat. _burgens-es_.

BURGEOUN, _s._ A bud, a shoot.

_Douglas._

Fr. _burgeon_, id.; Su. G. _boerja_, oriri; Isl. _bar_, gemma arborum.

BURIAN, _s._ A mound, a tumulus; or a kind of fortification, S. Aust.